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  Azad (rapper) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In hip hop culture, he found his home since it was a common part of life in the area he grew up.
He became a member of multicultural, radical rappers Asiatic Warriors, who rapped mainly in English, but also Turkish and German.
1994 Asiatic Warriors - Told Ya Leben (feat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azad_(rapper)   (143 words)

  
 D-Flame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He spent many years rapping in the rough Frankfurt underground, where he flourished, thanks to the support of his mentor, Rebel X of the Black Angel Music, in 1991 even being named best rapper of the city.
He was a member of two noteworthy Frankfurt groups, namely Foreign Accent and Asiatic Warriors.
Many underground rappers began during this time to dissociate themselves from the Hamburg City mainstream and Flame's old Asiatic Warriors colleague Azad launched a wide-ranging diss against commercial hip hop, causing tension between the two former friends as Flame sided with his new Hamburg City posse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/D-Flame   (852 words)

  
 Birthstones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Asiatic warriors believed that glowing garnets, used as bullets, inflicted more severe wounds.
In 1892, during hositilities on the Kashmir frontier, the Hanza tribesmen fired on British soldiers with garnet bullets.
In India, warriors encrusted their swords with pearls to symbolize the tears of sorrow that a sword brings.
www.kclaudene.com /birthstones.shtml   (1508 words)

  
 Amazons
The mythological woman warrior with a leopard hide donned on her head, and holding either a spear and shield or a drawn bow, remained etched in our memory.
These warriors were known as the Amazons, and that has it place permanently in a dictionary.
Though, the Amazons were warlike, and some of queens were daughters of Ares, they worshipped Asiatic Artemis, the moon-goddess of wilds.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/amazons.html   (3405 words)

  
 LOTE13 Newsfax, Turn 5
Rather than halting all shipments into the city, the warriors had devolved in their duties to merely exacting hefty tolls from convoys at sea and on land.
Within a week the latter had agreed to recognize the rights of the former, and after a few warriors holding out in a hilltop village were slain Edeco was, on Turpilio's suggestion, crowned by the bishop of Neapolis to the general acclamation of the crowd.
By now the average warrior was not pleased with city dwellers at all, and the sacking and subsequent torching of the metropolis was thorough.
www.xmission.com /~bob/lote13/PriorFax/FaxT005.html   (21159 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com: Sports: Yao Wows Oakland On First Official West Coast Swing
The Warriors had to hold a special press conference for Ming two hours prior to the game, and overflow press were assigned nosebleed seats in the building’s upper deck.
This was great news for the hometown Warriors, a bottom-feeder team for the past decade, who are desperate for fans to attend their games — so much so, that they’ll go out of their way to market a player from the opposing team.
This was also her first Warriors game, and she got free tickets to see him play.
www.asianweek.com /2002_12_06/sports_yaoming.html   (964 words)

  
 Balkans300   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Despite heroic efforts, the Roman Empire could not withstand the steady southern march by the German tribes.
But these advances had set off a reaction from a group of nomadic asiatic warriors, which the Chinese had called the Hung Ti, and which westerners labelled: The Huns.
These swept across the Russian steppes and into the Danubian basin.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/maps/balkans420.html   (199 words)

  
 Mongol Invasion of Europe in 1241
On April 9, 1241, Duke Henry II of Silesia, also known as Henry the Pious, marched out of his city of Liegnitz (now the Polish city of Legnica) to meet the dreaded Mongols, or Tartars, as they were then called by the Europeans.
The Asiatic animal, however, had superb endurance and survived by grazing in the wild.
Their Asiatic adversaries continued to flee before them, evidently unable to face the charge of the heavy horsemen.
www.thehistorynet.com /mh/bl-mongol-invasion   (2712 words)

  
 Sgt Grit's Marine Forum - Wake Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I recall serving with another Marine who wore the Asiatic Pacific ribbon with a "W" signifying that he was captured at Wake Island.
When I was at Camp Gifu, Japan, headquarters for the 3rdMarDiv, one of the staff ncos in HqCoHqBn told me that he was a POW slave laborer in the mines near Gifu or Nagoya.
Sully, when I was at Camp Gifu, Japan, headquarters for the 3rdMarDiv, one of the staff ncos in HqCoHqBn told me that he was a POW slave laborer in the mines near Gifu or Nagoya.
www.grunt.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78459   (8918 words)

  
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Her elder brother forbade such a practice, but his staff began to grumble that to deny this barbarian wench her due would make the rankers feel they were bested by her.
Individual warriors, and the elderly and children in heaps, littered the field, some in the smoking ruins of occupied buildings, others in charred tents and wagons.
Hit to front and flank, the local warriors cried out in alarm, and most threw down their arms and fled on the spot.
www.xmission.com /~bob/lote13/PriorFax/FaxT002T.html   (17538 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asia Minor
The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizond (Trapezus) on the Black Sea.
It was, politically speaking, "the Anatolic theme", one of the twenty-nine provinces of the Byzantine empire from the seventh century to the eleventh century, when it became a Turkish land.
Since then it has become officially known as Anatolia (Anadoli, Natolia, Nadolia), and as such constitutes an important part of Asiatic Turkey, is in fact the chief political and religious mainstay of the present Moslem constitution as far as it is based on Constantinople.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01782a.htm   (10209 words)

  
 ExodusJosephusVSManetho
Asiatic warrior garb usually reserved for the Canaanite fire, plague and war god, Resheph/Reshef.
That is to say, the biblical account of Asiatics (Israelites) despoiling the Egyptians of their possessions and jewelry (Ex 12:35-36), and then being expelled in an Exodus, is recalling Setnakhte's ending Asiatic influence over Egypt.
Manetho claimed that the Asiatic descendants of the formerly expelled Hyksos re-invaded Egypt from Jerusalem, and re-settled at Avaris.
www.bibleorigins.net /ExodusJosephusVSManetho.html   (8532 words)

  
 Kingdoms of the Barbarians - The Huns
These Asiatic horse warriors are understood to have originated from the Ordos region of Mongolia.
Usually identified as the Hsiung-nu people in contemporary Chinese records, they began a migration towards the west in the fourth century.
The region retains it's Hunnic-inspired name, even when the Magyars later form the kingdom of Hungary.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/BarbarianHuns.htm   (529 words)

  
 garnet rings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Asiatic warriors believed that glowing garnets, used medicinally as a remedy for hemorrhage and inflammatory diseases.
Asiatic warriors believed that glowing garnets, used medicinally as a gem of faith and truth.
Garnets were used medicinally as bullets, inflicted more effective than lead bullets.
jasen-staffords-rings.blogspot.com   (157 words)

  
 The Festival to honor European Warriors
There is a small celebratioin in which our social club would like to name a holiday that we will celebrate after the people who fought for the defense of Europe from ancient times to the present.
We decided that Marathon was the first real confrontation when the Asiatic Persians tried to conquer Europe so we would like to use the ANCIENT Greek translation of "The Festival to honor European Warriors", of course along with the pronounciation.
Neketeria, though an ancient word, is very familiar to the Greeks because it is used in a hymn to the Virgin Mary still sung in churches.
www.translatum.gr /forum/index.php?topic=754.from0http://www.translatum.gr/forum/Themes/default/images/englishNew   (252 words)

  
 ShopNBC.com - 14K Garnet & Diamond Cross Pendant w/ Chain
It is said that King Solomon wore a large red garnet along with eleven other magical gems in his breastplate (representing the 12 steps of Jacob's Ladder) to help him win battles.
Nineteenth-century Asiatic warriors even used the hard stones as bullets.
In the 13th century, medieval travelers wore garnets as popular talismans and protective stones, many of which were carved with lions.
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 Istria on the Internet - History - Attila the Hun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
They found Attila dead from a flow of blood, unwounded, and the girl with downcast look weeping beneath her veil.
Then, as is the custom of that race, they cut off part of their hair and disfigured their faces horribly with deep wounds so that the distinguished warrior might be bewailed, not with feminine lamentations and tears, but with manly blood.
Concerning this event, it happened miraculously to Marcian, emperor of the East, who was disturbed about his fierce enemy, that a divinity standing near him in his dreams showed the bow of Attila broken that very night, as if the Huns owed much to this weapon.
www.istrianet.org /istria/history/huns-goths/attila-death.htm   (1862 words)

  
 USPA - History of the Game
Possibly the oldest team sport, polo's genesis is lost to the eye of history.
An Asiatic game, polo was probably first played on a barren campground by nomadic warriors over two thousand years ago.
Valuable for training Calvary, the game was played from Constantinople to Japan by the Middle Ages.
www.us-polo.org /history.htm   (284 words)

  
 Teutonic/Norse/Germanic History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The basic Germanic political structure was the tribe, headed by a chief who was elected for his ability as a war leader.
There is some indication via archaeological evidence that the cultures that lived in the north of Europe were less barbaric than sometimes shown.
It was at this time that the Huns, a Mongolian tribe, swept out of central Asia westward until they encountered two Germanic nations, the Visigoths and Ostrogoths.
www.salemiu.edu /resources/library/int_ref_sites/HSS399.2/germanic.shtml   (1635 words)

  
 Nation of Gods and Earths http
Allah be the supreme Asiatic Black man. He who has knowledge of self and life.
Allah be an arm, leg, leg, arm, supreme head, is the original Asiatic Black man, the maker and owner of the planet earth and the one who made the Holy Koran which he applies to every mile of land one year to equal his home circumference, who is the all-eye-seeing Allah see all.
Noble Drew taught that fls were "Asiatics" and specifically Moors, whose ancestors lived in Morocco before their forcible transportation to North America.
www.inetmgrs.com /onepeoples/nation_of_gods_and_earths_http.htm   (8378 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com: National News: Fans Irked by Delayed Apology from Kings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Michael Ching waited the entire game for someone in the Warriors’ organization to come down to talk to him after the now infamous racial incident at a February Warriors/Kings game.
On Feb. 28, Jason Williams, a point guard for the Sacramento Kings, shouted racial and anti-gay slurs to Ching, a Warriors’ season ticket holder, and to several other Asian Americans seated beside Ching during a Warriors game at the Oakland Arena.
Determined to file a complaint of his own, Ching demanded to speak with someone from the Warriors’ front office and waited until the end of the game before speaking with Robert Rowell, vice-president of Business Operations for the Golden State Warriors, who told the 39-year-old that something would be done.
www.asianweek.com /2001_03_23/news1_jasonwilliamsapology.html   (960 words)

  
 >MANSA MUSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Osman was the ruler of Turkish frontier warriors in the service of the Seljuks.
He conquered Bursa on the Asiatic shore opposite Constantinople, proclaimed himself Sultan and established the Ottoman empire.
The name of the empire derives from the Arabic form 'Uthman' of his name.
www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons5_n2/osman.html   (59 words)

  
 [No title]
I owe the indication of this, and of the Portrait of Kúblái Kaan in vol.
Professed Portrait of the Last of the _Altun Khans_ or Kin Emperors of Cathay, from the (fragmentary) Arabic Manuscript of _Rashiduddin's History_ in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society.
This Manuscript is supposed to have been transcribed under the eye of Rashiduddin, and the drawings were probably derived from Chinese originals.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/4/1/12410/12410-8.txt   (16867 words)

  
 Hwa Rang Do: Research
They were going to fight together with 50,000 hand picked warriors under the command of General Kim Yusin.
One of the most famous stories of Hwarang warriors is the martyrdom of Kwanch'ang, the son of General P'umil, who died in the wars of unification.
Though we are now only pale ghosts, we wish to join Your Majesty's army to defend the fatherland forever, but, being overshadowed by Su Ting-fang, the T'ang general, we have to follow behind him all the time.
www.hwarangdo.com /hwarang.htm   (12702 words)

  
 Lords 27
Hoplessly outnumbered, Pepin was told by his scoutsthat his 28,000 warriors were outbnumbered by atleast 10-15 to 1 and that Asiatic warriors were still crossing the river..no telling how many they were.
The Asiatic cavalry rides around his flanks and cuts him off from retreat.
By mid afternoon gaps begin to appear in the squares and the Asiatics send forward their heavy cavalry.
www.throneworld.com /lords/lote27/archive/turn011.html   (4520 words)

  
 VaYeshev - Nishmat
But in fact, historical circumstances made Potiphar's nationality noteworthy.
For a century, Egypt was ruled by Asiatic shepherd-warriors called Hyksos.(1) During this period Joseph was sold into Egypt, and the Torah relates that his buyer was a native Egyptian even though the rest of the Egyptian royal court were Semitic foreigners.
The Torah would not give us this information, however, if it did not help explain other parts of the story.
www.nishmat.net /article.php?id=81&heading=1   (564 words)

  
 Fantastic Metropolis » Tanelorn’s Seed
Some of the new arrivals were slaves who had been sold into bondage or had surrendered their freedom in exchange for economic protection.
Then, around 1650, the Delta was engulfed by Asiatic warriors referred to as the Hyksos, or “rulers from foreign lands.” Clad in body armor and wielding scimitars and bows, they rode to war in a revolutionary vehicle unknown to Egypt—a two-wheeled chariot that confounded the efforts of mere foot soldiers.
The question that lies at the heart of the Second Intermediate Period is the nature of the Hyksos.
www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/tanelorns-seed/3   (559 words)

  
 Middle East Stage: Kavitha Dispatch - April 15, 2000
Never before and never since has this region seen such a bloodbath, such merciless devastation, as when these Asiatic warriors came thundering across the Iranian plateau through the very deserts we're traveling today.
Mongolia, nestled between China and Siberia, is a harsh land whose climate is cold and dry.
Some people feel that it is this harsh environment that made the Mongols such ruthless warriors.
www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/mideast/041500/041500kavimong.html   (1357 words)

  
 0rk
The thing has made I pay attention to ORK has been your excellent cover of the demo THROUGH THE FIGHT I RIDE.
There on the cover have only Bulgarian warriors.
None Asiatic or Mongols or any other savages.
www.geocities.com /abyssusinvocat/EAbysmal_II_Ork.htm   (1011 words)

  
 Earthscapes- transforming nature into works of art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
OBSIDIAN/APACHE TEAR - considered to be one of the tears of Native American women, mourning for the warriors driven from a cliff by the cavalry, used to comfort in times of grief, allows ones comfort zone to remain at large
Warriors presented their young wives with sapphire necklaces so they would remain faithful.
It was believed that the stone's color would darken if worn by an adulterer or adulteress, or by an unworthy person.
home.comcast.net /~earthscapes2005/glossary.htm   (13580 words)

  
 - Chapter 5
He stared at the Asiatic horsemen, trying without much success to figure out where the devil they'd come from.
Most of their spears were topped with bronze dragon heads, to which cloth banners had been tied, fluttering like windsocks, mouths wide open, with tails that ended in streamers flying wild as their Asiatic owners.
She looked very nearly as competent in the saddle as the armed warriors of their escort and she'd slung a smaller version of a war sword at her hip.
www.baen.com /chapters/W200208/0743435397___5.htm   (8629 words)

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